Sentence examples for allowed to countenance from inspiring English sources

Yet any foreign agreement, no matter how good it is, should not be allowed to countenance continued aggrandizement of executive power and further subversion the republic's Constitution.

In mid-March, the Pew Research Center delivered this poll: 76% of U.S. Catholics countenance birth control; 59% want women as priests; 64% think priests should be allowed to marry.

By adopting a paraconsistent logic, a dialetheist can countenance some contradictions without being thereby committed to countenancing everything and, in particular, all contradictions.

No more miracles were to be countenanced, except those warrantied by Scripture.

It's not a crime to be countenanced or excused or explained away.

Therefore, there are perfectly legitimate grounds for Morsi to give countenance to arts, beauty and aesthetics.

His escalating abandonment of morality allows him to countenance and facilitate the death of a gypsy pickpocket, egged on by the desire to have the best for his much younger wife.

As I wrote last week, the Church has been party to both in countenancing television ads that lie and in allowing a leading Mormon to write letters attempting to blackmail donors to the "No on 8" Campaign.

The host turned a stricken countenance to Duveen.

We believe that history affords no countenance to such an idea.

Trump appears to have implicitly countenanced that option, too, in a recent tweet.